Examined a process for unifying two teacher self-efficacy scales, providing a common metric for communicating and comparing results. Data from 118 education students indicated that items from the two scales defined a unidimensional construct. Correlations between person measures from the two scales demonstrated their strengths for measuring…

Investigates the implementation of a project for fostering information and communication technology (ICT)-based integrated learning environments in Hong Kong schools. Overall, effective ICT integration requires substantial thinking about curricular practice and appropriate teacher training. ICT must provide students with varied experiences and…

This year-long study exposed preservice elementary teachers in Fiji to pedagogy based on a constructivist view of learning in order to improve their content knowledge and provide them with greater confidence to teach science. Qualitative and quantitative analysis indicated that the constructivist-based teaching approach led to improved learning,…

Addresses how teaching quality and student performance can be promoted, offering a blueprint for teacher evaluation, applicable to both regular and special education, based on differentiated supervision and evaluation as well as metacognitive reflection. The paper discusses the pitfalls of misusing teacher evaluation criteria and explains how…

India has established district institutes of education and training (DIETs) to improve the quality of elementary education. These institutions use of the Lab Area approach, which focuses on innovative ideas and experiments related to elementary education and teacher development. Studies show that this approach has a positive impact. This paper…

Reviews the context of Canadian teacher education, highlighting changes in the educational landscape, in the population (e.g., the multicultural nature of society and shifting urban/rural trends), and in how people think about professional education and discussing the professional development of in-service teachers. An overview of formal and…

Addresses the past four decades of Quebec's teacher education reform, noting the resulting interplay between university-based teacher educators and school-based practitioners. The paper highlights four historical periods, explaining that even at the oldest North American French-speaking university, the evolving forces at play within teacher…

Describes teacher education degree programs in universities throughout Canada's four western provinces, focusing on the instrumentalist approach to pre-service education at one university and noting initiatives for training aboriginal and Hutterian teachers. Guidelines from a new provincial government indicate a movement toward a more dialectic…

Describes a report which was considered the blueprint for teacher education, discussing teacher education as a lifelong process, fuller integration of practicums and campus programs, and a vision for teaching and teacher education; describing various Ontario faculties of education; highlighting an exemplary program at the Ontario Institute for…

Through reference to policy and research documents, this paper provides insight into how educational restructuring and reform are planned, presented, and implemented in Canada's Atlantic provinces, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador. It suggests that such reform and restructuring occur at the interface of a province's history, geography, and…

Addresses the importance of emotions in relation to teachers' work in classrooms, to colleagues, and to communities, with implications for understanding the changing nature and organization of teaching in Japan. The paper analyzes five emotional geographies of teaching (moral, cultural, political, professional, and physical) in terms of Japanese…

Interviewed Australian student teachers to examine how core beliefs about knowing related to peripheral beliefs about learning. Students' beliefs about knowing ranged from a focus on knowledge as absolute and received to a view that knowledge was constructed and reasoned. Categories related to learning ranged from reproductive to more…

Examines the integration of information technology (IT) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, presenting the rationale for this move, characteristics of IT integration, and program development issues for making IT application a critical component of contemporary teacher education. The paper presents a framework for program development and…

Examined beginning teacher educators' experiences, describing their beliefs, actions, and efforts to learn about teaching and changes they made when attempting to become better educators. Participants challenged the status quo of the culture of the educational system, the curriculum they taught, and the controlling mechanisms within the academic…

Used data from teacher and principal interviews, teacher journals, and observations to examine mentoring within Hong Kong kindergarten classrooms. Results indicated that: effective mentoring was a very important factor in teacher development; mentoring involved complex social relationships influenced by many factors, and mentors had to possess the…